Benjamin Franklin's intellectual world
By: edited by Paul E. Kerry and Matthew S. Holland
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; Co-published with Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Madison; Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9781611470284; 9781611470291
Subjects: Knowledge and learning; Political and social views; Intellectual life
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more" / Paul E. Kerry and Matthew S. Holland; title: Franklin's masks: a play upon possibility / Michael Zuckerman; title: Benjamin Franklin unmasked / Jerry Weinberger; title: Early modern imperialism, traditions of liberalism, and Franklin's ends of empire / Carla Mulford; title: Benjamin Franklin, the mysterious "Charles de Weissenstein," and Britain's failure to coax revolutionary Americans back into the empire / Neil L. York; title: Benjamin Franklin, student of the Holy Roman Empire: his summer journey to Germany in 1766 and his interest in the empire's federal constitution / Jürgen Overhoff; title: Benjamin Franklin and the leather apron men: the politics of class in eighteenth-century Philadelphia / Simon P. Newman; title: Recasting Franklin as printer: a note on recent historiography / Doug Thomas; title: Benjamin Franklin, Richard Price, and the division of sacred and secular in the age of revolutions / Benjamin E. Park; title: Ben Franklin and Socrates / Lorraine Smith Pangle; title: From Weimar, with love: Benjamin Franklin's influence on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's self-fashioning / Paul E. Kerry; title: Afterword: Benjamin Franklin's material presence in a digital age and popular culture world / Roy E. Goodman.